List of concert band literature
This is a list of some of the standards of concert band repertoire.
Original works
This is an inclusive list of the accepted standard works written specifically for concert band or wind ensemble.Cornerstone works
The following works are some of the most universally respected and established cornerstones of the band repertoire. All have "stood the test of time" through decades of regular performance, and many, either through an innovative use of the medium or by the fame of their composer, helped establish the wind band as a legitimate, serious performing ensemble.;Kenneth J. Alford
;Samuel Barber
;Robert Russell Bennett
;Hector Berlioz
;Arthur Bird
;John Barnes Chance
;Aaron Copland
;Ingolf Dahl
;Antonín Dvořák
;Henry Fillmore
;Vittorio Giannini
;Morton Gould
;Claudio Grafulla
;Percy Grainger
;Howard Hanson
;Paul Hindemith
;Gustav Holst
;Karel Husa
;Gordon Jacob
;Joseph Willcox Jenkins
;David Maslanka
;Peter Mennin
;Darius Milhaud
;Camillo de Nardis
;Ron Nelson
;W. Francis McBeth
;Felix Mendelssohn
;Vincent Persichetti
;Walter Piston
;Sergei Prokofiev
;Alfred Reed
;H. Owen Reed
;Gioachino Rossini
;Camille Saint-Saëns
;Arnold Schoenberg
;William Schuman
;Joseph Schwantner
;John P. Sousa
;Richard Strauss
;Igor Stravinsky
;Carl Teike
;Jaime Texidor
;Clifton Williams
;Ralph Vaughan Williams
Respected works
These pieces may not necessarily be quite as universally acknowledged as the above list, but occupy an extremely important place in the repertoire nonetheless. Like the previous works, they have proven themselves through many performances, most over a span of decades.;David Amram
;James Barnes
;C.L. Barnhouse
;Leslie Bassett
;David Bedford
;Frank Bencriscutto
;Richard Rodney Bennett
;Warren Benson
;Jerry Bilik
;Eugene Bozza
;Houston Bright
;Howard Cable
;Alfredo Casella
;Michael Colgrass
;John Corigliano
;Paul Creston
;James Curnow
;Elliot Del Borgo
;Norman Dello Joio
;Thomas C. Duffy
;Frank Erickson
;Paul Fauchet
;Henry Fillmore
;Luboš Fišer
;Julius Fučík
;David Gillingham
;Edwin Franko Goldman
;Morton Gould
;Percy Grainger
;Samuel Hazo
;Clare Grundman
;Kenneth Hesketh
;Frigyes Hidas
;David Holsinger
;Alan Hovhaness
;Karel Husa
;Gordon Jacob
;Robert Jager
;Tristan Keuris
;Karl King
;Boris Kozhevnikov
;Robert Kurka
;Elizabeth Maconchy
;Martin Mailman
;Pascual Marquina
;David Maslanka
;W. Francis McBeth
;Johan de Meij
;Olivier Messiaen
;Vaclav Nelhybel
;Ron Nelson
;Roger Nixon
;Vincent Persichetti
;Alfred Reed
;Anton Reicha
;Ottorino Respighi
;Vincent Frank Safranek
;Florent Schmitt
;Gunther Schuller
;Joseph Schwantner
;John P. Sousa
;Claude T. Smith
;Philip Sparke
;Eric Stokes
;Richard Strauss
;James Swearingen
;Frank Ticheli
;Virgil Thomson
;Fisher Tull
;Clifton Williams
;Kurt Weill
;Dana Wilson
;Haydn Wood
;Guy Woolfenden
;Ralph Vaughan Williams
;John Zdechlik
Recent works
The following works are rapidly gaining acceptance as standard repertoire. Most have been composed within the last 30 years.;Richard Rodney Bennett
;Steven Bryant
;Mark Camphouse
;Óscar Navarro
;Michael Colgrass
;Klaas Coulembier
;Greg Danner
;Michael Daugherty
;Thierry Deleruyelle
;Eric Ewazen
;Aldo Rafael Forte
;Michael Gandolfi
;David Gillingham
;Julie Giroux
;Peter Graham
;Ferrer Ferran
;Donald Grantham
;Edward Gregson
;Samuel Hazo
;John Harbison
;Evan Hause
;Kenneth Hesketh
;Yasuhide Ito
;Scott Lindroth
;John Mackey
;James MacMillan
;David Maslanka
;Nicholas Maw
;Scott McAllister
;Cindy McTee
;Andres Valero
;Ron Nelson
;Carter Pann
;Marco Pütz
;Steven Reineke
;Jan Van der Roost
;Rolf Rudin
;Joseph Schwantner
;Robert Sheldon
;Robert W. Smith
;Philip Sparke
;Jack Stamp
;Steven Stucky
;Omar Thomas
;Frank Ticheli
;Michael Tippett
;Jess Langston Turner
;Dan Welcher
;Eric Whitacre
;Dana Wilson
;Charles Rochester Young
Transcriptions
There are thousands of transcriptions of pieces from other media available for the concert band; however, some transcriptions are performed so often that they can be said to have achieved a place of their own in the concert band repertoire.;John Adams
;Isaac Albéniz
;Malcolm Arnold
;Johann Sebastian Bach
;Samuel Barber
;Hector Berlioz
;Leonard Bernstein
;Johannes Brahms
;Eric Coates
;Aaron Copland
;Claude Debussy
;Antonín Dvořák
;Edward Elgar
;George Gershwin
;Alberto Ginastera
;Percy Grainger
;Ferde Grofé
;W. C. Handy
;Paul Hindemith
;Gustav Holst
;Charles Ives
;Edward MacDowell
;Felix Mendelssohn
;Modest Mussorgsky
;Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
;Ottorino Respighi
;Richard Rodgers
;Gioacchino Rossini
;Camille Saint-Saëns
;William Schuman
;Dmitri Shostakovich
;Jean Sibelius
;Richard Strauss
;Igor Stravinsky
;Arthur Sullivan/Charles Mackerras
;Franz von Suppé
;Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
;Richard Wagner
;William Walton
;Carl Maria von Weber
;John Williams
;Giuseppe Verdi
;Ralph Vaughan Williams
Recordings of concert band literature
The Klavier Wind Recording Project was started in 1989 by Eugene Corporon while he was director of bands at the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music. It has helped provide recordings of many of the most important and more recent pieces in the wind band literature. The recording project continues today, having followed Corporon to the University of North Texas. The project continues to this day under the label GIA Publications. Corporon's recordings exist in the form of the Teaching Music Through Performance In Band Series, Windworks Series and Composer's Collections. Still more recordings have been released by The Keystone Winds, conducted by Jack Stamp. The Keystone Winds consists of faculty, alumni and students from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.Two of the most prominent professional bands are the Dallas Winds, conducted by Jerry Junkin, and the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, conducted by Takeshi Ooi. Both bands were at one point led by Frederick Fennell who recorded several albums of concert band literature with them.
The French Republican Guard Band, known as Musique de la Garde républicaine and one of the oldest concert bands in the world, has recorded numerous works from the early 1900s.
External resources
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